4 redbulls, 2 snickers, and a couple of orbs

We arrived at the Waverly Hills Sanatorium about 7:30pm.  16 of us:  13 professionals, 2 curious bloggers, and me. Our guide led us on a tour and told us about the various horrific events that occurred on each of the 5 floors we’d be exploring all night, so that the professionals could plan where to [...]

for 23 hours

I’ll get up tomorrow at 5am. I’ll serve our country until noon.  I’ll drive 6 hours with this pervert I know from blogging. I’ll spend the night in a haunted asylum where over 60,000 people died. A couple other blogging friends will be there. We’ll leave the asylum at 4am and crash. I’ll change my [...]

muskrats in massachusetts!

I just had some damned good pie and coffee in Woods Hole, Massachusetts after a day of biking across Martha’s Vineyard.  There’s something tranquil about pulling two fighting toddlers alongside traffic jams and beaches where Jaws was filmed.  It forces going to one’s happy place. After that, we took these toddlers to the oldest carousel [...]

it is finished

It’s July 1st:  one week after our original closing date.  I’m 1100 miles from the house we’ve been trying to sell for 4 years, and I just learned it is over.  Mortgage paid off.  New owner.  Confirmed via email to the agent with whom I left a limited Power of Attorney. The move last Friday [...]

mom 2.0 and a streetcar named “four loko”

Thursday evening at 5pm, I landed in New Orleans to finish what I started at Mardi Gras.  Or to live blog a mom blogging conference.  Or maybe it was to meet the last blogger I’ve enjoyed reading for years but had yet to meet.  Or I felt obligated to rejoin the friends I’d made at [...]

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